Pino Mura, the former boxing star turned 80: «Boxing, my life»
The champion, born in Padria, but raised in Porto Torres, remembers "the sweat and effort" to achieve successYou say Pino Mura and you think of the humility of a champion who wrote memorable pages in boxing history.
Born in Padria but raised in Porto Torres, the Italian super featherweight boxing champion in 1975 turned 80 on 6 November.
And he spent sixty of them in the gym sweating. «because – he says – boxing back then was different. Effort and sacrifice. And the difficulty in losing weight. I got up at 5 every morning and did two hours of training, then clocked in at the municipality to work during the day. In the evening another two hours of exercises."
A plumber worker, he never let the greatness of his career weigh on him. All downhill. «For me boxing represented everything».
In 1965 he was the Italian amateur bantamweight champion. In 1967 in Tunis he won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games, in the same category. At the Olympics in Mexico City, due to a disputed verdict, he lost the opportunity to win the title.
On 2 August 1975, in the ring of the municipal field in via Petronia he took the title of Italian champion from the Sicilian boxer Giovanni Girgenti by beating him by abandonment in the seventh round.
